For Robert Jay Lifton, treating veterans’ trauma was an antiwar tool. How did PTSD, the diagnosis he helped create, come to accommodate state violence?

Israel's attacks on health care workers and facilities in Gaza are unprecedented.

The post-work movement reckons with reproductive labor.

On art in the age of generative AI.

Instead of pouring public funds into private industry—as the United States did with COVID-19 vaccines—we must build public capacity and prioritize public objectives.

Generative AI has made it possible to create lifelike models of real people. Should we?

Within the next decade, we may well have systems that are serious candidates for consciousness.

The anti-regulatory ethos of libertarian economics has dire consequences.

Not as it’s traditionally done, but there are more equitable models.

In Foolproof, psychologist Sander van der Linden compares misinformation to viral infection—and claims to have a vaccine. 

But awareness alone won't solve the problem. Here's what we should do.

Two recent books force us to rethink what knowledge is, where it is located, and how it moves.

Martha Nussbaum on her new book—and why a full development of our humanity requires developing our capacities to care for animals.

Rare earth mining will disrupt local climate resilience. Who should pay the price?

Despite debates about scientific certainty, we do not need 100 percent consensus on a scientific claim to accept it as true. 

In place of public-private partnerships, we should revive the Pan-African ambitions of the green developmental state.

Both regulators and employers have embraced new technologies for on-the-job monitoring, turning a blind eye to unjust working conditions.

As Big Tech's data and profit extraction extends the world over, activists in the Global South are pointing the way to a more just digital future.

Two new books examine the ordinary roots of our extraordinary regime of high-tech monitoring.

How science works.

Building public trust requires far more than the conveyance of facts and instruction in scientific thinking.

In her new book, Danish poet Olga Ravn writes with open love, pity, and compassion for her strange yet familiar creations.